Talk:Follow Me up to Carlow

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[edit] Number of English

The Article states that 800 English soldier were "defeated", but the English army was actually 3,000 Strong, 800 were killed, so I'm editing it to 3,000.--Hibernian 09:01, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Song Link

Oy folks, the current song link to an apparently unlicensed (no license is listed) live-concert recording on Youtube is a muddy, almost non-understandable mess in recording terms...I fault not the band, it was clearly an amateur camcorder recording. It's also at a rather non-traditional tempo and in a very modern guitar style.

I attempted to edit this to a longstanding Youtube recording of the Planxty version (as the article states, this is commonly viewed as the definitive version) which includes lyrics as well as a variety of period and near-period illustrations. It was botcorrected due to being a youtube link, with an advisory that I raise the issue on the discussion page.

Youtube recognizes recordings of a song with video added to it as 'a different intellectual property' than the audio recording only. This is absolutely nitpicking, but they've been able to make it stand more often than not. That said, the link I have suggested ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=uggbzBtGbJw ) is of no less dubious province then the current link, is at least clearly understandable and is a version mentioned in the existing article.

I did look about to see if I could find a live recording posted by the band doing the playing but didn't spot any.

What do people think? Understandable Planxty, or *mumblemumblemumble* high-speed modern version? Zjonni 09:58, 5 June 2008 16:57 (UTC)

So what's the issue? It's not with Youtube as a whole or neither would be acceptable. I guess the Planxty version (the music) in under copyright while the live band isn't? If that's the case, then we probably can't have the Planxty version under current policy, though I'm not sure if the other is allowed either. I'm not really up on the specific policy in regards to Youtube; there a bunch of crap I don't really bother with, and external links to other media is one of them. If the Planxty is unacceptable then that's that. I don't know if the other better legally, though it is inferior musically. R. fiend (talk) 17:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)